Detective Sergeant McAvoy Books in Order

A run of brutal deaths in wintry Hull seems unconnected until McAvoy spots the pattern everyone else has missed. The first book in the series introduces a deeply decent detective in a city full of old hurt and fresh blood.

What looks like a suicide draws McAvoy into Hull's underground sex scene, gang conflict, and political rot. As more bodies appear, he realizes someone is marking people for their darkest sins.

Violence is rising across Hull as a new criminal force tightens its grip, while McAvoy and Trish hunt a killer with a long memory. The case is savage, personal, and far too close to home.

Still reeling from the attack that shattered his home life, McAvoy is eased back to work with a supposedly closed case from half a century ago. It proves anything but safe, pulling him into old crimes and fresh danger.

One girl has been missing for months, another has turned up dead, and McAvoy refuses to let either case slide into silence. The investigation twists into questions of vengeance, mercy, and who gets to decide what justice means.

When McAvoy's brother-in-law is blamed for bloodshed in upstate New York, the Hull detective has to cross the Atlantic to find the truth. New York's cops, gangs, and old loyalties make this a darker, bigger outing for the series.

The police think a troublesome young woman has simply disappeared, but McAvoy suspects something far worse. A body pinned to a wall and signs of a missing child drive him toward a violent reckoning with his own past.

When McAvoy finds an elderly woman frozen inside her own home, the scene looks too strange to be accidental. The trail leads from Hull to Iceland and back into half-buried fishing history, grief, and murder.

A prisoner dies while out on day release, and everyone is ready to call it misfortune. McAvoy is not, especially when the case ties back to a debt he owes and enemies who have not gone away.

This McAvoy prequel goes back to Hull before the main series and shows the young detective on a case that will mark him for life. It also fills in key history with Trish Pharaoh and the scars he carries forward.

When a man is shot, sealed inside a beer barrel, and sent down the Humber, the trail leads McAvoy to a riverside pub full of people who know more than they will say. This short case is a sharp introduction to Hull and its silences.

A murdered clairvoyant pulls McAvoy back to a case from the start of his career, one he has tried hard to forget. To catch the killer, he has to face old guilt and the secrets inside his own marriage.

A mutilated body in woodland, with Roman coins nailed over the victim's eyes, gives DS Aector McAvoy one of his bleakest cases. His promise to find justice soon puts the people he loves most in danger.

On a family holiday, McAvoy learns that someone has been attacked in his place, and that the timing is no accident. Secrets kept by Trish Pharaoh begin to surface, putting the whole team at risk.

A weekend away for his estranged mother's birthday should be awkward at worst, but McAvoy ends up in the middle of a suspicious death. Old family grievances and local power games turn the trip into a nightmare.

A notorious killer may soon walk free unless McAvoy and Trish can prove what he really is. Their fight to stop his parole collides with a vigilante hunt and another body on a lonely road.

McAvoy is told to reopen the ten-year-old murder of a beloved fight coach, a case Hull has never really forgotten. As he digs deeper, the trail reaches into a powerful family and a much larger criminal web.